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Message-Id: <200909182248.21032@blacky.localdomain>
Date:	Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:48:20 +0400
From:	"Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@...msu.su>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8

> I'm having troubles booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8.  The same kernel
> boots fine on F11, but on F8, it cannot find the root logical volume.
>
> One thing I notice is that F11 uses root=/dev/mapper... and F8 uses
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 in grub.  It's not clear to me what
> the value of mapper should be...is there some way to figure this
> out from an older kernel (2.6.29) that boots fine?

I've recently faced a very similar problem, trying to boot some "modern" 
kernel on debian etch system.

It was solved by putting more recent lvm2 binary into initrd.

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